The Sun. — London, England, 1809-12-13 00:00:00

SPAI,V. PRIVATE CORItESPONDENCE. 'cr SBVILLE, Nov. 6.—From La Manclia we are informed, that the army continues .to advance, and that the enemy hare actually withdrawn their in fantry, but hate left a numerous body of cavalry at Madridejos, as a corps of observation. Adv,ices from. Madrid, to the 30th ult. had reached the head 7 quarters of the Army of La Maocha. Accordingto them, the French in that capital were committing excesses of every . description ; 4000 infantry, and the greater part of Joseph's guard, had marched from thence. It was even rumoured that Joseph himself had set off; bin this requires confirmation. -41 Nov. 7.--From La..Maecha we Ir..ar, that the enemy have already evacuated Madriclejos, and that they appear to have changed their plan of opera-. lions; ,their line being .formed to the right,. from .. Viliambas, in the dirt Ction of Corral de Alnia guen, &c. Nov. t.—Tti.La.Manclia the enemy Continue :to retreat; and the .General writes, that he is ad yancing, by forced marches, to attack them when-. ever he can come up with them. A . private letter itays.: ; that the General had .rceived instruClions to proceed againt Toledo, where his visit would pro. babfy be nexpected on the part of the enemy. Nov. 10, The effects of the rapid movements of th(- . Army of La Mancha already: begin' to mani fest th, mselves. On. the 6th our , cavalry, about sao in number, charged; put to flight, and pUrL tuea the enemy's cavalry, consisting of • 3000, kill in than too" f ahem, and taking frOm them a considerable qbantity of provisions and other articles. I " . Nov. 1 t..L—By a diipatCh from the General, th e eralny's loss is ascertained To have been 400 in killed end prisoners. They were pursued - as far as Tembleque, where they took the road' of Seper.— The enemy were filled with dismay, and dur troops saimlated to enthusiasm by the • event of the late adion. Nov. tr.-I—We yesterday received advice, that Atrizaga, rwo diiiisiGna of infantry and some cavalry in •the.environs of Aranjuez, to conceal 414 real designs from the French, ordered the rest opis army io advance to ?dente butt4s: When tiro Courier came away, 1 infanta' 'and the cavalry had already passed the - Taps at drat: point. The infantry passed by a tlyieg-bridge, and the cavalry by aford: The artillery was immediartly to be con veyed across by a bridge, constrUCtecrwith greater solidity. The passage was effected without any op;- Position'from the French; whose vigilance had, in this instance, been completely eluded ; for they Were throwing up works near Salinas;"in position that our army intended to advance by,-Arl' Juei. The fortifications in the vicinity of Salinas save thus been rendered useless ; for they are now exposed to be attacked by us in flank or rear. We ttiay, therefore, daily expe& to,hear of a battle, the result of which, if favourable, will enable.us to enter Madrid. That such will be the result, we are led to expect, from the great confidence reposed in the aCtivity, zeal, and talents of the General, and in the high spirits and good. disposition which our array . 4evinces on its march. - I "It is further stated, that the Dukes del Parque and-Albuquerque have formed a lunation, and are direait % their march upon Madrid. The French Monsieurs at Madrid (TWA therefore be on the akrt to escape from the storm with which they are threatened. " It is positively stated, that a levy is to-be•forth- tvith decreed of 50,000, to be taken frona.the age of 1 6 to 35, withoOt diStinelion of rank ; and that, in addition to this, there will speedily be formed an army of 60,0.00, for which purpose thew' is to be a „pneral requisition of arms and horses. " To conclude, instead of being dismayed by the ,bad news from Austria, we are all of us daily ani :Mated with a more ardent determination- - to - resist the French, and to overthrow the reputation of their ferocious leader." We have been favoured with a .communication fro n the printird port in Grenada, with the latest intelligence from - the Spanish armies, which arrived it t ist befr , re the letter was closed. • MALAGA, NOV. l a.-:—The : hopes :of success bere are stronger than they were, and we trust that t_bey. are not. without foundation. The post of'thiS day. has just brought us the acceptable news that our army of La Mancha has advanced as far as Valdemoro, Which is withfri four leagues of- Madrid. This was effeaed with little opposition. They, liowever, at tacked on their way a body of the enemy; consisting of two' regiments of - Polish cavalry, sent out as a reconnoitring party, when they killed about 250, and took 46n prisoners. ▪ Perhaps by the next arrivals we shall learn th a t Madrid is 'gain in possession of her ancient go vernors ; but it may be that we hope too much." W e have . received some interesting particulars `from a Gentleman who reached London on Mon-. ,day from Cadiz. He crossed from Valentia, through Murcia and Andalusia, and had abun- - giant opportunities of jddgiog of the situation of affair. He says, that the desertion from the Premb forcei had been very considerable. — The Italians they could not trust, and the •Ger- Mans, Poles and Swiss had abandoned their co lours, to the number of X 5,000. Of these, princi- Pailk Swiss, three thousand had been formed into a Corps at Gibraltar, and the remainder had been sent to the Wands of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, and Si cily, The indignation of the country against the': enemy was powerfully operative throughout the empire, and the patriotic enthusiasm of the inha bitants was never more conspicuous. The strag glers of the invading army were massacred wherever they could'be found. In the capital the French re taliated with great severity, and sometimes, in a sin tie day, there were 40 executions. It was supposed that the garrison of MonjuiCh, the fortress corn ttlanding Barcelona, consisted of only woo men. There were nO'French in the city. The fortifications,: 43 , f Valencia and Alicant had been greatly-improved °Y the skill of the archite& and the patient industry , °I the people. i Yesterday Sir DAVID DUNDAS held a public day at his Office in the Horse Guards, and gave audiences to a number of Military Officers. • 4 , PORTUGUESE P)IPERS. I'o TkE tbITOR OF Tht SUN. . . . Gtts.,:ADi, Nov. Is.—The French army which ST.E, . . . occupied la Mancha continues to retreat bafore 'our . The clamour that t has lately been raisedisaantne of advancing army. An Sierra Morena is now cony- ! the Opposition PaPers on the subjea of. our in pletely fortified. A great number of batteries have i creased Paper currency, and the scarcity 01 the pre been construEted, and - are still cowtruaing, and the i elms metals, has induced me to send you the fol- Men are incessantly employed in erecting new lowing observations. . , works. - . . There is, perhaps, noShbje6t on which most men 'Tau xit.Lo, Novel G.—The French evacuated on i find greater difficulty inacquiring clear and defined the tath inst. the post of Arcebispo and Talavera del ideas, than on this part :cif 0,11661 economy, and la Reyna; our troops have already occupied the above I most of the writers in these papers seem to have post, and push their advanced parties as far as Oro- fallen into that obscurity which is so general. I be pesa. The head-quarters of this army will this i iieve it Is pretty generally granted e that, with respea day be trarcsferred to..Paraleda. It is said that a corps I to the internal transatlions of a nation, it is of no of the army commanded by. the Duke del Parque is i consequence what constitutes the sign or circulating in Talavera de la Reyna. The guide of that part of • i medium of exchange—whether it ia the gold of the the army of la Mancha which arrived yesterday, I . Asiatics, or the cowries of the Africans — whether was dismiss e d at Dos Barros, one league froth 1 the lumps of iron of Sparta, or the Bank-notes of Ocana. i England ; nor is it of any ccnsequerice, as far as LiszoN, NOtr. 23.—The S panish Papers which llt conceras such a nation, whether this medium is were yesterday received, state, that the Spanish in greater or less quantity. The quantity of money armies continue too advance against the Wench, who will always regulate the price of cumniecliliei- . --and have aWndonell the position's which they occupied. they most inevitably always bear a relation to each The arrival of his Excellency Marshal General Lord Other. The only advantage then of employing ape- Wellington at his artny - atibids • .new hopes of , cic as the -circulating medium will arise from. our glory to-the amts of our ailles:--4tston Diary, Nov. ! transactions with other countries, who refuse to take 23. . ! our paper, and must be paid in cash. The. este. • • . tiltslrinent of paper currency, by putting out of cir- Rio Decreesof the .Prince Regent of Portugal, dated H , culation a great quantity of the precious metals, has Janeiro,' July '6, 1809. . in, this manner au injurious s effea, and were the Governors of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves : Friends', I the Prit.ce Regent send 'unto. balance of trade against us , would deprive us of them you greeting, as unto ilicAe Is loVe and prize. h.' altogether : but the industry and labour of the coun being my principal care to secure,' by any means pos."- try pe ‘ odueing more than is required for the payment futile', the independence of my dominions and to de- of our 4 nelports, - brings et ery year into the county A suiii9ient :1111110y of cash to answer liver 'them completely from the cruel enerriie who so. all the par trif foreign transatitions. The advantages of inhut i nanlY aod contrary to the goOd laith . of treaties, P o ses and paper currentare tor) obvious to need enumeration ) bah iiivade'd the States of my'Crown in :Europe, r-ind Mercllents well know the utility. of Bank dis has never ceased Making . upon them the most unjust' war, and it is on the one hand ackno ,4 ledgcd that counts. These pro Mote circulation ; and this, in its in such a difficult crisis nothing can more contra- turn, ievigoiates inclbstry, facilitates trade, end be butt to the defence of the kinecli.nn than a govern- bets vkiesith. e • . ment composed of a small number of individuals, and Orie writer stems to have fallen into a strange as on the other, ti is indisPensable to preserve e ith . mistake when he asserts, that if all the Bank paper pinyancient and faiihttil ally the King of Great Bpi - 'IOW in circtilation had. fallen into the flames of: tain not only the best under Drnry,Lane Theetre, the ster next day money.:standing, but likewise to ' prose to hum in the most evident manner,' t h a t my . I would hate been scarcer, and the necessaries of life. greater plenty. This by no means would have, intentioris'are not different from those by which he in been the tonsequerice. ~ l'his event, by increasing is animated `in the prornotion of the common cause,' : that his Britannic Meiesty May 'continue in the seine "•,' the value of (nooy, would bate decreeted the price, without having any effect on the quivitity of efficacious mantierto succour Portugal and the whole 1 -- . Peninsula; and as it cannot be doubled that this the article'. . •glorious purpose, which i. so ardently desire to effect, I I a i m , awilre that the evils of the present time : have afforded in all ages a favourite topic for decla - • cad only be attained by the most-extensive, firm, and' '.mutton ; and hence we find, in our day, many, who reciprocal confidence, and his Britalmic Majesty '. attempt to terrify us with the most dreadful accounts having Made known his priticiples on this Siabject, . ad what he judges will most contribute to a happy of our situation-01 the depreciation of money, and result, and is of me .. the high price of all tile necessaries of life. Even .Kingdom of the Peninsula,. I have seen fit to order the sagacious HUME was deceived, and forms one that you shall be immediately reduced to the nuts- of t he long list of false Calculators and pseudo ber of three Or two governors , having a de l i berative : Prophets ; a more accurate ex.aminai ion will, how. and , ever, discover the fallacy of the complaint, and sinew vote on all ()Was of the public administration , that these shall be the Patriarch eleet of Lisbon, the that the same labour will purchase a greater quantity 'of commodity et the present day than it did a cen- Marquis das Menus, and the Marquis Monte i ra Mor, :I tury age,. By the table of " the Appreciation of President of the. Board da Cooscienci a e ' Ordans, . ,Money, '. published in the Transaaions of the Royal Den Francis XaVia de Contra e Meneze r, p er f orm- Society, 4 appears that the depreciation of money ing the for 4ions of President of the Privy Counsel, to . , which place be is appointed by the-present decree.— from. the ;'e +r 36%) to 1800, was .in the ratio of 234.52 to 562 neatly; so • that. 11 . in UiBg .WAS It is further my pleasure to direa you to acknow. ; ) 11 •-pewer to 21. Ps. 80. in 18(10. . Now the ledge Sir A. 'Wellesley as Marshal } General of My ' ll l -1 4.al armies, as long as he shall continue in the cornmaed averege price of wh-at for five years of plerity, end ofing in IGt!!.?, was It. Ss..i3ich the quarter, and the the allied Portuguese anti English forte's, taking. average of ti,ve years, ending in 1799, ,was only then his rank over Marshal BerestOrd as Commander 3L 3 , 1"..5d. Hence, from this account, it is appa in Chief, and as soon as lie shall have been recog nized as such, you will invite him to all the sittings rent thar the wheat was cheaper it, 1799 than it was of Government, in wilich matters come under dis- in 16 . 5e't 'and the dednaions of Arithmetic are not cession which concern the organization of the army, i 1 0 be tailed by the wailings of despondence or the financial or murmurings of discontent. • or important determinations , w h ether others which it may be necessary to adopt for the With regard to the scarcity of the precious metals, :defence of the Kingdom and of the whole •Pcninsilla, Ido not knew that it is injuriously felt, and certain- taking his opinion and advice on all subleas of that 1 Y am not disposed to be much, alarmed, about it; n3tnre, and should he be absent, in .such cases not conscious that the riches 6f the country consist not able to assist at your deliberations, you are to apply in i ts guineas or . Bank -notes, but in the spirit, s kill, for his advice in writing, if possible giving h i m lull and eoterprize of its inhabitants, and that where. and are present, gold and silver will be easily pro information of the subjeCt under discussion, in order • that he may be perfettly acquainted with your dis- cered e . Tittle in the year 1798 about eight millions cession and determination of matters of the above of bullion were imported into the country; as the description. In this manner the affairs of Govern- 4 k urplus payment of our foreign trade. ment shall be conduaed with the utmost energy and harmony, as icing a's unfortunately it shall not be pbs sible to conclude a permanent and general peaett.—• His Britannic Majesty Will then Le convinced it is my earnest .:wish to eradicate the general vice of coa litions, difference of -opinions between the powers , who make common cause, and he will be made per fealy acquainted with the orders which I have i given, and shall continue to give, that the most stre nuous efforts shall be made to attain that safe andper manent peace, so universally desired, by means of a grand display of all the forces and resources of my kingdom, which I can only flatter myself completely to recover by. the most powerful Means and exer tions. CANDIDUS. REMARKABLE SUICIDE. On Thursday,• the, 30th of _November, Ambrose Higgins, of East Pennard, in Somersetshire, hung himself in his dwelling-.house: It appeared in evi dence before the Coroner, that the wile of the de-. ceased had been particularly pressed to . go to Wells Fair ; she accordingly went. In the course of the day Higgins performed his usual labour. In the evening he returned to his house, got a light at a neighbour's, and went into his own apartment ; was heard to . go to bed, and all was imagined- well. Friday morning, not attending his work, it was ima gined he bad gime, to Wells for his wife. Saturday arrived—the same higniries ,and. the same ideas en tertained. However; in the evening a Wow-work man go! into the house, and there found him hang.- ing by the neck—of course dead. It appeared he had stripped himself qni.e naked; tied his legs and thighs close with a c ord, to prevent his struggling. He then placed -the rope immediately opposite his ,chin, as he stood at his bed's foot, having first taken the sheet off his bed, and nio,t curiously sewed it up in the form of a bag ; then drew it over his head almost down to his feet. After pinioning hitnsell .in. that manner, he placed his head, or rather his chin, into the rope, and swung off. There can be no doubt he was a long time dying, as the knot of the rope-was up nearly to the top of his head from . his poll. An inquest was taken on Monday, the 4th inst. and the Jury returned a verdia , —Felo de se. lie was buried in a cross-road. THF f PRTNCE. Palace of Rio Janeiro, luly 6, 1809. To the Governors of the Kingdom of Portugal, and Algarves.--Lishon Gazette, Nov. , 21. An impudent robbery took place last week at Mr. FOURNEY'S, dealer in spititUous liquors, the corner of Hand-court, Holborn. . SoMe fellows contrived in the night to get into his cellar, from which they removed • a considerable quantity of wine, but not before they drank a bottle or two in the place, after which they let themselves out at the shop-door. A most extraordinary fraud has been committed by some arch. impostor, who has personated Earl Percy, and obtained I 8,9001. from some money-lend ers, by granting them annuities. The attornies em ployed went down in company with the broker,who raised the money from different persons, and met the pretended Lord at the Black Bull in Hexhatn, when he executed the annuity bonds, and received the money. The loan, it seems, was proposed to be only 15,001. ; but so eager were the monied men to accommodate the Heir of the House of Northum berland, that they forced upon him 18,0001. and so numerous were the tribe of gulls, that the impostor had to sign his name to different deeds 55 times. An examination was to have taken place last night before a • Magistrate oel the subje&, but the matter was post poned; and in the mean time the most alive inquiries are set on foot. It was discovered by an assurance being otlered at one of the officers on tire life of Earl Percy, which b;ought it to his LordshiVa know ledge. The Anchor and Vine public-house, at Charing; Cross, and the two public-houses adjoining, in Buck ingham-court; have been lately pulled down ; they were purchased by Government for upwards of 1(1,0001. forthe purpose of enlarging the Lords of. the Admiralty's house adjoining, and also for having : a printing-office built for the use of the Admiralty. Yesterday the Governors. of the Charter-house met at their Hall : an Oration in Latin was deli vered by one of the Scholars, a young gentleman of the name (.4f- Chtitwyn, preparatory to his going to the University ;, at the conclusion a collection was made for him. After which the GO'venlors withdrew . up stair to an elegaot-diouer. 'LAW REFORT ARCHES COURT JO' CAN ERBURY, i)deTORS COMMONS, MONDAY, PLC. U. RGDBARD AGAINST rnicE,-PALSEtrc , CALLING IfER 'SELF RODBARD. This was a Cause.of nullity of martiage,.promdteci , by John Rodbardi Esq. against Sarah Rodhard, hit wife, by reason of a,foriner•ruarriage. It was clearly establiihed in this case, by exhibits and witnesses produced', that—Ore. husband of the first marriage was living at rhe time the second. marriage was solemnized, and therefore the Court pronounced the same marriage null and void. RIEMPE AGAINST THE REV. MR.,\VICKS. This was a suit promoted by a Mr. Kempe, of, Calvinistical Independence, against the Rev. Mr. Wicks, Reetor of a parish in Somersetshire, for re, fusing to bury a child belonging to two parkhioners, on the ground of the child having been baptised by a Dissenting Minister. It was contended on the part of the Rev. Mr. Wicks, that the administering of this Sacrament must be performed by a lawful Minister of the Es. tablished Church of England, otherwise such bap - - tism was to he'considered as null and void, both bY the ancient and modern Rubries, Canon Law, and various other authorities, quoted by the Learned Civilians on the subject. . • , The Court (Sir JOHN NICHOLL) after. bearing, !•he CoUnsel on behalf of the Prosecutor of the suit ) who- very ingeniously contended to the contrary effetc,i, waS tit opinion (after entering at considerable length into thu yatious authorities upon the point ,in question), that the Rev. M. Wicks had mistaken the law, that it was his duty to have performed the ceremony, arid therefore admitted the artiCics,rt the same time recommending, as this—suit %,v - is not brought by Mr. Kertspe through any vindictive s.pie . rit, but only tor the purpose of determining the right, and setting the question at rest, that he would be satisfied with eorreain g the error, _and establish._ Mg the right ) without proceeding any farther in the. cause. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 12. EDINSON V. PARKER. This was an action to recover damage; for false imprisonment. The Defendant is a housekeeper, re siding in Queen -street, Cheapside, and the Plaintiff' lived -with him as servant.--4t aepeared, from the evidence on the part of the Plaintiff, that she lived in' the' family of the Defendant nearly two years, during which time she had conducted herself with credit to herself, and to the satistaetior) of her employer, till within _the last few months, when her master went to roside a short time at Croydon, and having a good' opinion of the Plain ' tiff, he . left her in charge of his town-house. On ' his return from Croydon, some articles of house ! , hold , linen, which had Linen consigned to the care of the Plaintiff; were missing; and as she could not give any.satisfaCtory account of the disposal, suspi cions. arose in the mind of the Defendant, who CQM- • rnenced a search thrOughout the house, and on exa mining the locks of the different places of security, and that of his iron chest, he discovered, from the evident marks of violence on them, that some at tempts had been made to force them open. This circumstance, added to the saspicions which had previously ,arisen in his tniod,. at once induced him to :suspeCt the Plaintiff of dishonest practices ; and, after some hesitatiOn, he sent for an Officer to take her into custody, and 'convey ' her before the Lord Mayor, in or4er to undergo a legal scru tiny. She was conducted to the Poultry Comp ter on • the Friday afternoon by, desire of the defendant, and.wasitaten before - the Lord Mayor On the Saturday,: who having ::made - some inquiries into the 'circumstan c es 04, the case, _remanded her tor a ft?rtherexantii atron on the Monday following * , In the interim ,her 'bakes and person were searched, but nothing was found which could fora :a . ground for reasonable accusation. And on 'the ilelon• day, after a further inquiry into the case; before the Lord Mayor, she was discharged, In a short time afterwards the property which had been lost was, found, and the plaintiff was completely extril tinted from any charge of dishonesty'. „. The defendant simply put in Islca 'of not guilty ; but ;as it did not atrathYf `that any felony had been committed, and :thee there was "cansequently no grodnd for the anprhenSion of the Plaintiff, the Jury, after a short conversation, returned a verdict -for the Plaintiff—Damages 20i. Costs 40S. We have been favoured with a letter from Bom bay, sent ou.board the Castlereagh, on the day she' sailed, containing the following advice from Colonel Wolker's 'detachment, employed in the Catawar country: -" On the 7th July; we took the Fort of Malan by storm, the• garrison of which plate made. a spirited resistance. Captains Wilkinson and McKenzie, of the Bombay regiment, -we have just committed to theearth ; they havedied , of violent exertion and excessive heat during the storm, Mr. Cheyne is wounded, we fear mortally ; and Percy shot through the arm; as also Capt. Anion, of the 65th; Lieut. Brown, and another officer, wounded : oc loss is between 70 and so, chiefly Europeans." An old woman, who for some years lived a half starved life, lately. died at her lodgings in Duke's court, Westminster,.where,after, her decease, there were found in an. earthen' pot fifty guineas in gold, ,301. in silver, and a quantity of old halfpence. CORN-EXCHAtiGE, DEC. 13.—There are several .fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day, and Considerable re-: mining supplies, part thereof foreign; sales ,of se cond and ordinary are heavily ntade at rather lower prices, some prime Dantzic .exceeds the currency; Bailey and Malt in short supply, and full as-dear ; White Pease, likewise; Tick Beans ate • elteh)er ; there are short supplies of Oats, but from the ex peded arrivals this trade is scarcely quoted 'dearer ; Flour at late prices, fine AfEICI lean wholesale 58s. to 635. per barrel. • Wheat -76 s a gos a ion Tickfleans (old) 50$ a 559 , Pine ditto - ti•ss a las Oats - Ai a 3os a 3.0 Rye - sos a S4i POtand ditto - 36 s a 39s Barley 5:,s 3 sos I Potatoe ditto - 4ts a—a halt - . 7Ss a b6sl Rape Seed - 4ti a 53i White Pease Los a 88s Fine flour , acs a 93 s Grey ditto -54 s a 60S SC00111; Vss a you Beams (old) boy a 66s